- From: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:13:05 -0400
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: "'Duncan Bayne'" <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>, <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
Duncan, John Foliot [2013-06-13T23:30]: > Duncan Bayne wrote: >> The message seems to be: Debate implementation details? Sure. Debate >> whether DRM should be endorsed by the W3C? Sorry, already decided. > > Please stop. The W3C has not said they are endorsing DRM - they have, quite > publicly, stated the contrary. John is right here for this specific point. Endorsement has a very precise meaning at W3C. When a technology has reached the Recommendations status, it is being endorsed by the W3C (its members) as a technical specification implementable on the Web. Before that the document is just a work in progress that you don't know yet the outcome. The intent for companies pushing the proposal have sure (business) interests of seeing a favorable outcome. But it happens that some technologies are just abandoned along the way, because they didn't reach consensus, or reach enough interoperability. It can be sometimes a very long process. So no, it is not endorsed by W3C. W3C has just said it is in the scope of the work for HTML as defined by the charter. (Not that it pleases me, but at least, let's get the facts straight). :) -- Karl Dubost http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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